Catholic Central High School - Spires Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Boys' Building Girls' Building Gymnasium Tam, and snr that the Lord is sweetf, just as the students will use a certain stand' ard to judge this yearbook, so too will God use a certain standard to judge our lives. just as the yearbook staff needed wisdom to select stories and pictures that satisfied the students' standard so too do we need wisdom to select just those actions and thoughts that satisfy God's standard. However, human reason cannot supply sufficient wisdom to fulfill God's destiny for man so the Holy Ghost bestows upon us the supernatural Gift of Wisdom which enables us to judge all things according to the divine plan which we learn to relish.

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Foreword The Spires St Andrew's Cathedral In last year's issue of the Spires, readers were shown how school life at Catholic Central wound its way in and out beneath the shadow of St. Andrew Cathedral Spires. This year we go a step farther. Knowing that before there can be a shadow there must be a light, we have investigated the source of this illumination and think we have found it in the light of the Holy Ghost. Consequently, in the 1940 issue of our yearbook we have tried to show how the light of the Holy Ghost, particularly through the seven Gifts, is related to the different departments of Catholic Central. Some of these relationships may seem somewhat arbitrary, since it is impossible to show this connection specifically in a brief manner as we have attempted to do. Nevertheless, our comparison of the seven Gifts and the sections of the yearbook is based upon the sound philosophical principle that whenever one thinks of some' thing, he always uses mental pictures to aid his reasoning. For example, the gift of Counsel will be associated in the students' minds with the section on the faculty, Fortitude with athletics, and so on with the others. But in case these comparisons are not sufhcient explanation in themselves, we have placed on each divisional page a summary of the respective Gift. Thus, the Spires of 1940 aims, through both art and story, to recall to the students their activities at Catholic and to remind them that, when they are faced with temptation, their greatest source of courage is in friendship with God, through whose bountiful mercy they are receiving the great gifts-Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Knowledge, Piety, Fortitude, and Fear of the Lord.